Archive for September, 2012

Did I mention I’m really into these hours-long broadcast mixes lately? This is one from TNGHT, the collaborative electronic musichild of beat makers Lunice and Hudson Mohawke. They call this mix their “Mission Statement”. They tracks they’ve blended sum up their sound very well. Full of heavy, hollow, crunchy, beats, and syrupy chopped and screwed bangers.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a little metaphor for TNGHT’s sound, try and follow me: ANTS ON A LOG.

The backbone, the beats of their music are like celery: crunchy, fresh, cool, full of H2O=fluid, and a little green=vibrant and good to smoke to. Then you’ve got your peanut butter: the substance. It’s that heavy, thick, oily, pusedo-dissonant vibe their music has. The dissonance comes when you can’t get the peanut butter off the roof of your mouth. Then line it with raisins. TNGHT’s music is full of those sweet moments, when everything just clicks, the layers the space, everything, and it sends those tingles of pleasure through your mind and body. You feel them. Sweet to the palette.

Listen to the beats on the TNGHT album and this mix and think about it.

The SuperVillain takes over BBC Radio to announce his return to the world, with a two hour all-DOOM broadcast on the Benji B Radio 1 show. The Metal Face has been cryogenically frozen in his secret volcano lair for past three years, chilling, brooding, plotting his next menacing assault on the citizens of the world.

The BBC Radio takeover comes on the coattails of his newest and unexpected JJ Doom release Keys To The Kuffs.A full album stream of that johnny cake can be found here. Definitely worth many listens.

We’ve been waiting on a ton of promised projects from this dude for a while now. He mentions them, says they’re coming, he’s working them all simultaneously: new Madvillain, a Ghostface-collab DOOMSTARKS album. Bets on which comes out first and which never comes out at all?

Anyway, the radio broadcast and the album stream probably won’t be up too much longer, so get um while they’re still fresh. Fuck stale music.